Barbara Forrest

Barbara Forrest
Barbara Forrest participating in the "Creation and Evolution" panel at CSICon 2011 in New Orleans.
Nationality	American
Fields	Philosophy
Institutions	Southeastern Louisiana University
Alma mater	Southeastern Louisiana University (BA) Louisiana State University (MA) Tulane University (PhD)
Known for	Creationism's Trojan Horse Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
Notable awards	ASCB Public Service Award (2006)

Barbara Carroll Forrest is a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. She is a critic of intelligent design and the Discovery Institute.

Forrest is a graduate of Hammond High School. She received her B.A. in English in 1974 from Southeastern Louisiana University, her M.A. in Philosophy in 1978 from Louisiana State University, and her Ph.D. in philosophy from Tulane University in 1988. She has taught philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University since 1988 and presently is a professor of philosophy in the Department of History and Political Science.

She co-authored Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design (Oxford University Press, 2004), with biologist Paul R. Gross. The book examines the goals and strategies of the intelligent design movement and its attempts to undermine the teaching of evolutionary biology. The authors analyze the absence of a scientific intelligent design hypothesis, ID's religious foundations, and the political ambitions of intelligent design proponents. They examine the movement's Wedge strategy which has advanced and is succeeding through public relations rather than through scientific research. They also highlight intelligent design creationism's relationship to public education and to the separation of church and state.